Procurement Data
Pubblicato il 04-10-2026 - Palo Alto Networks in Roma
Job Purpose
As part of the Procurement Operations, Digitalization & Strategic Excellence team, the Procurement Data & Digital Excellence Specialist is responsible for building and maintaining the data foundations that enable modern, data-driven procurement operations.
The role ensures procurement data is accurate, reliable, governed, and accessible in real time to support operational excellence, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities. Working closely with procurement, IT, data engineering, and business stakeholders, the specialist will transform procurement data into a strategic asset that drives better decision-making and continuous improvement
Also, Bridgestone Europe is embedding AI across multiple ERP (mostly SAP - S/4HANA, BDC) landscapes and platforms. Within Procurement, this role delivers the data products that make those use cases possible: clearly defined, properly modelled, documented, and trusted.
Responsibilities
Data Governance & Stewardship
- Act as the Procurement Data Steward for master and transactional procurement data.
- Define,
implement and continuously improve procurement data standards, governance and quality rules.
- Monitor data quality KPIs and drive corrective actions with business and IT teams.
- Ensure data consistency across SAP and connected procurement applications.
Data Foundation & Architecture
- Data Attribute Definition: Define and document data attributes, business rules, calculation logic, and field-level definitions for all procurement data products — spend, suppliers, contracts, and purchasing KPIs.
- Collaborate with IT and Data Platform teams to ensure procurement data is available, secure and scalable.
- Support the integration of SAP data with enterprise data platforms and analytical environments.
- Contribute to the evolution of procurement data architecture.
- Source-to-Target Validation: mappings from SAP S/4HANA and various data sources into SAP Business Data Cloud and Databricks, ensuring data flows co